About this title: Desmond Tutu, who has worked rigorously on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has put together his hard-earned thoughts on the nature of forgiveness and reconciliation in this story of South Africa's post-apartheid healing. Without any saccharine formulas, his tempered work maintains humanistic ideals for moving forward.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2000-11-01
ISBN-13:9780385496902ISBN:0385496907
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Image
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780385496902ISBN:0385496907
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1999. First Edition. First Printing.
ISBN-13:9780385496896ISBN:0385496893
Description: Octavo, hardcover, small stain on outside bottom pages else near fine in near fine red and black pictorial dj. Giftable. 287pp. Chronicles Archbishop Tutu's courageous chairing of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee of South Africa. "He conveys our common pain and sorrow, our hope and confidence in the future."...Nelson Mandella. read more
Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: EBURY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780712604857ISBN:0712604855
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 244 pages. (244 pages) this is the archbishop's personal account of his experience as head of south africa's truth and reconciliation commission broadening the debate on the merits of reconciliation after conflict with observations, based on visits to, and experience of northern ireland, the middle east, dachau and rwanda. edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780385496896ISBN:0385496893
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 6.5X9.5. Tightly bound-==Clean & bright pages-==No writing or marks in book-==Pink line on top of end pages-===1st edition 2nd printing-==287 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780385496896ISBN:0385496893
Description: Near Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author Bottom corners lightly bumped, otherwise a NEAR FINE stated 1st edition (& 1st printing) in a FINE color pictorial dust jacket (price intact). AUTHOR INSCRIBED: "Adrianne / God Bless / Desmond Tutu / 2.12.00" (in black ink on the half-title page). read more
Edition: Signed Edition
Binding: Full-Leather
Publisher: Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, USA
Date Published: 2003
Description: As New; Signed by Author. 8vo A special Limited First Edition, this one SIGNED by former Archbishop of Cape Town and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Desmond Tutu. A wonderful copy of this scarce book in As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap; Tutu's personal memoir of his time as chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a group formed to expose crimes committed under apartheid and to achieve reconciliation with South Africa's former oppressors. Contains all of the ... read more
"I can say I read most of it. I have put it down for a while as I am deeply moved by the atrocities of aparteid. This is a book to be digested slowly."
"For any of us who struggle with judging our fellow man, Bishop Tutu shares his life experience and saint like lessons on forgiveness , humility and the healing power of realizing that " there but for the grace of God go i""
"Hearing Archbishop Tutu speak in person at the 2006 World Council of Churches Assembly has to rank as one of the highlights of my life. He is an utterly remarkable man. And this book - this totally deserving of five stars book - tells a remarkable story.
Appointed by Nelson Mandela to be co-Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up in South Africa following the transfer of power from the Nationalist Apartheid Government, Desmond Tutu writes in this book about the history leading to the Commission, the progress of the Commission itself, and his thoughts on forgiveness.
This is simultaneously an easy and a very difficult book to read. Tutu writes engagingly, and in a manner that keeps you reading. However, he also describes some horrific moments in the history of South Africa, and talks about horrific attitudes. I was reading this while at the National Assembly of the Uniting Church of Australia, where I was an elected member. At the Assembly we had a number of pieces of business relating to the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress, which were highly emotional, and to which I tended to connect much of my thinking while reading this book. Although I tried to think about how what Tutu was writing about could be applied in the Australian context, the two contexts are so very different that I have so far found such thinking quite difficult.
However, I will certainly be pondering the contents of this book for some time to come."
"teaching me a lot of vocab words! Loved his voice and explanation of this very touch time in South Africa. There was so much I didn't know. I was hoping for an autobiography of Bishop Tutu but this book is specifically about the Truth & Reconciliation movement of South Africa. The book left me profoundly shaken and contemplating the role of forgiveness on a national level and politics. There are so many places in the world where this model should be applied to break the cycle of violence (and is why this book is so profoundly moving). The only thing I got lost with is all the names of the political figures in South Africa, but it's not that big of a deal and doesn't detract from the message of the book."
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